Christina Ricci and David Hoflin star in "Z: The Beginning of Everything." Amazon Studios Amazon is battling Netflix to see who can make the best streaming TV shows, but unlike its rival, Amazon often uses the 'pilot' system to determine which shows to make.

That doesn't mean Amazon always gets it right, however. Even beyond pilots Amazon doesn't pick up, the company seems to have a much quicker trigger finger than Netflix, and has killed a bunch of shows after just one season.

All told, Amazon has canceled seven shows, excluding Woody Allen's "Crisis in Six Scenes," which Allen seems to have axed himself (though it did also get panned by critics). Amazon recently canceled two shows related to F. Scott Fitzgerald: one based on an unfinished novel, and one about his wife, Zelda. Amazon is overhauling its strategy for original content, as CEO Jeff Bezos wants to make a hit like HBO's "Game of Thrones."

'Betas': Canceled after 1 season (2013-2014)

Amazon description: "Trey and his guys have an app, and a plan — now they need an investor. It's party-crashing time."

Critic rating: 69/100

Audience rating: 7.6/10

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'Alpha House': Canceled after 2 seasons (2013-2014)

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Amazon description: "They work in the Senate. They live in the house - Alpha House."

Critic rating: 68/100

Audience rating: 6.8/10

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'Hand of God': Canceled after 2 seasons (2014-2017)

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Amazon description: "A psychological drama about a morally-corrupt judge who suffers a breakdown and believes God is compelling him onto a path of vigilante justice."

Critic rating: 44/100

Audience rating: 7.2/10

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'Good Girls Revolt': Canceled after 1 season (2015)

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Amazon description: "In 1969, while a cultural revolution swept through the free world, there was still one place that refused to change with the times: newsrooms. Good Girls Revolt follows a group of young female researchers at "News of the Week," who ask to be treated fairly. Their revolutionary request sparks convulsive changes and upends marriages, careers, sex lives, love lives, and friendships."

Critic rating: 65/100

Audience rating: 6.4/10

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'Mad Dogs': Canceled after 1 season (2015-2016)

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Amazon description: "When a group of underachieving 40-something friends gather in Belize to celebrate the early retirement of an old friend, a series of wild events unfold, exposing dark secrets, deception and even murder. Starring Ben Chaplin (The Thin Red Line), Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos), Billy Zane (Twin Peaks), Steve Zahn (Dallas Buyers Club) and Romany Malco (Weeds). Executive produced by Cris Cole and Shawn Ryan (The Shield)."

Critic rating: 64/100

Audience rating: 7.4/10

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'Z: The Beginning of Everything': Canceled after 1 season (2017)

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Amazon description: "The life of Zelda Fitzgerald (Christina Ricci) is chronicled from her first meeting with F. Scott (Gavin Stenhouse in the pilot and David Hoflin in the rest of the season) in 1918 in the drama series based on the novel by Therese Anne Fowler."

BONUS: 'Crisis in Six Scenes' ended after 1 season

Miley Cyrus and Woody Allen on Amazon's "Crisis in Six Scenes."
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Amazon description: "This is a comedy that takes place in the 1960's during turbulent times in the United States and a middle class suburban family is visited by a guest who turns their household completely upside down."